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Explanation of command to uppercase the first letter of a filename

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I'm trying to learn to rename files with the command line, and after browsing around a lot of pages I finally found a command that uppercases the first letter of a file, but the problem is that I want to understand the meaning of each command. The command is: I understand the 'for' kinda... but not…

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for i in *; do new=`echo "$i" | sed -e 's/^./\U&/'`; mv "$i" "$new";done

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Fix for: Explanation of command to uppercase the first letter of a filename

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Would be the entire code broken down to make it easily viewable, I'll explain below. First we have to make sure we process every file, the following line means: "Do the following as long as you can find files" Then we have to load the current filnam…

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